QUOTE(Achromatic @ Tue 11th August 2009, 10:38pm)
My personal favorite was the "Juris Doctor, Georgetown, 2012 (Expected)".
If I saw this in a resume, and you were anything more than a term away from graduation (let alone 3 damn years), I'd laugh, and throw your resume out.
"Currently studying". Yes. "In progress". Sure.
Not "Expected".
I can see "Expected" being written/sniffed haughtily while looking down the nose.
Apparently MBisanz feels that Georgetown's JD program is unchallenging, a moot point, a fait accompli. Perhaps he could express that to his professors and see if they could do something about it?
This is common. Maybe not for someone who hasn't even begun law school, but for a 1L (that is, next month), this is what you put on your resume. Compared to undergrad, law school is a very stable three years, with two predictable summers where everyone tries to intern. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you don't do much legal hiring?
It was on my resume, and I got plenty of offers in the fat days of 2007 (that is, two years before graduation).
Incidentally, MBisanz, you don't want to go to law school
now do you? I'm not confident that the economy will recover in three years, and the legal market is ugly right now.
QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 12th August 2009, 12:50am)
That includes drop-outs for any reason. Most people don't actually fail; when it becomes apparent that they're going to fail they get a phone call from the dean advising them to withdraw for "personal reasons".
Law school is an incredibly competitive sport in the United States, especially at top tier schools.
Sorry Kelly, there's
no top-tier law school (which Georgetown certainly is) with 30% attrition. In fact, law schools are more competitive toward the
bottom. This makes sense. At lower-regarded schools, only the top students might find jobs as partner-track associates. At Northwestern or UChicago virtually everyone who starts as a 1L finishes three years later (except joint degree students). You're describing something more like John Marshall Law School (downtown Chicago), which is very competitive and has a high attrition rate.